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"With our approach we hit fully linear parallelism because we take all the source systems and we essentially do what we call scatter the data," explained Ben Wether, director of product management at Greenplum.

The analyst, who called the growth in P2P “explosive,” observed that the RIAA strategy was like chasing cockroaches that scatter from the light, stressing that for each P2P network targeted, there are ample more to step up and bring on more users.

In recent years, lower ratings have often raised prices for ads sold close to the airdate -- known as "scatter" -- because networks had to give away ad time to make up for shortfalls, decreasing their inventory.